[AISWorld] CFP: AMCIS 2014 Social Aspects of Social Media Minitrack

[Laurence Brooks]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Savanah, Georgia, USA August 7-10, 2014.
(http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/)

Track: Social-Technical Issues and Social Inclusion (SIGSI)

MiniTrack: ** Social Aspects of Social Media **


We invite submissions to the mini-track, "Social Aspects of Social Media" within the Social Issues and Social
Inclusion Track for AMCIS 2014. This mini-track welcomes relevant theoretical, empirical, and intervention
research, in either full paper or research-in-progress format, that relates to the mission of SIG Social Inclusion
(SIGSI). The purpose of SIGSI is to promote research, pedagogy, and outreach on all aspects of social inclusion in
the field of Information Systems (IS). The goal of such efforts is to stimulate greater diversity of thought and
personnel in AIS and the IS field overall, and participation of all our members in a more socially-aware and
inclusive discipline.


Social Media, as exemplified in the 'Web 2.0 concept' by online applications such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube,
Flickr, LinkedIn, Bebo, Hi5, Pinterest, 43 Things, and many others (Kaplan and Haenlein, 2010), have been making
headlines in the national newspapers (Lanchester, 2006), not only for their high profile acquisition by major
media companies, but also for their ability to potentially create a whole new revenue stream, create a new
exploitation route, influence the outcome of the US presidential election, monitor natural disasters (Greengard
2011) or even effect wholesale political change such as in the Arab Spring (Stelter, 2008). These technologies
have now become accepted and ubiquitous.


While the technology is important, as without this the whole phenomena would not exist, the interesting and
challenging element of social media is what people do with it, ie. the social aspect (Aguenza et. al., 2012). This
track aims to bring together related articles (theoretical and empirical papers, including survey and case/field
study research papers) that address the concept of social media and related phenomena.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
*             Analysis of social networking patterns and trends
*             Business value and the strategic impact of social media
*             Frameworks and models of best practice for developing/sustaining/integrating social media systems
*             Enterprise 2.0 business models and case studies; enterprise social media
*             Issues of privacy and trust; information credibility
*             Management of the 'chatter' of multiple social media channels (ie. the new 'information overload')
*             Mobile social media
*             Social media analytics
*             New and alternative approaches to social media systems
*             Positivist, interpretivist and critical approaches to social media
*             User adoption and diffusion of social media

Instructions for Authors.
To submit a paper, please follow the directions at http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers

Submission:
Please follow the instructions given at
http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers

Important dates:
March 1, 2014: (11:59 PM EST): Deadline for paper submissions
April 4 2014: Authors will be notified of acceptances on or about this date
April 18, 2014: Authors revisions due
April 25, 2014: (11:59 PM EST): For accepted papers, camera ready copy due
August 7-10, 2014: AMCIS Conference

Minitrack Chair(s):

Laurence Brooks
Brunel University
Laurence.Brooks at brunel.ac.uk

Roman Brandtweiner
Vienna University of Economics and Business
Roman.Brandtweiner at wu.ac.at

Howard Rosenbaum
Indiana University
hrosenba at indiana.edu
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